Anna’s description + concept art
Concept:
The Wrought represents the heavy burden of unresolved emotions. Its design emphasises weight and sluggishness, making it a tank-like enemy that physically blocks progress.
- Shape: A bulky, humanoid silhouette with exaggerated, uneven limbs and a hunchbacked posture.
- Texture: A cracked, stone-like surface with faint glowing fissures.
- Colour: Muted greys and blacks with hints of glowing green or red accents to match its thematic connection to grief.
- Motion: Moves slowly with heavy, stomping steps. When attacking, it raises its arms dramatically before slamming them down.
Experimenting with different silhouettes
When I first saw the wrought, it reminded me of Kingpin from Spiderman: Into the Spider verse because they both have a larger round-shaped body, but it also gave me an idea of Kingpin’s personality, which is what I wanted to show in the wrought, so I decided to experiment with different silhouettes of the wrought to see if I could visually express a more slow appearance. Overall, I think I like the right design more, which is a mix of the left and middle design.
Experimenting with adding different features :
Next, I wanted to experiment with adding additional features to the wrought. On the left, I added a creepy smile to contrast with the minimalist face, giving the wrought a more terrifying appearance. While on the right, I made the wrought higher with longer arms and legs, as if it were bending over the protagonist like an unbeatable wall. However, I believe the design on the left had a bigger impact on me, therefore I ultimately chose that design and went directly to pixel art afterwards.
Final design
This is the pixelized version of the wrought I used a similar colour scheme as the whisper, as well as extra red, to emphasise the sinister smile while maintaining the wrought’s overall circular form. Overall I like the shading I did and the change I added with the smile as it gives a more terrifying look to the wrought.
- Canvas size: 32×32
- App : Resprite
Different colour palettes :
I experimented with many colour palettes, from deeper tones on the left to bright ones on the right, but I ended up liking the middle colour the most because it complemented the whisper colour palette as well, so I went with it.
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